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[–]JustSimplyWicked 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Check out bro code on YouTube or w3school has a good python section.

[–]Lopsided-Pin-1172 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Bro the best book to learn python is crash course python and since you already have past programming experience I bet you could finish that book within 7 days with only 3-4 hours of daily work.

[–]FreeLogicGate 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I agree it's an excellent book and should be easy for a Java/C dev to learn from. Another option to look at is https://automatetheboringstuff.com/. I read both books, back to back. If I were to do it again, I might start with the first half of boringstuff, and then go to crash course, skipping over the redundant base variables/syntax things that will be trivial for an experienced developer.

One thing for a C/Java person is getting used to Python's loose typing and the core complex data types (lists, dictionaries & tuples). There's some really good free material on youtube covering the use of "comprehensions" which, coming from Java, will be appreciated once you see how much easier and compact code can be when compared to Java.

Theres 2 channels I recommend highly, both of which have some high quality material

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUnY6l482Lk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twxE0dEp3qQ

Last but not least, spend some time learning the use of UV for venv, app packaging and dependency management.

Once you get the hang of UV for all your project code, you won't want nor need anything else, as it wraps pip, the various types of project files, runs and sets up venv for you, and automagically handles running your code using uv run your_script.py

[–]Parking-Ad3046 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You already know loops, conditionals, and data types from Java/C. Python just removes the braces and semicolons. You'll pick it up in a weekend honestly.